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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kan, Sergei
Titre(s) : A maverick Boasian [Texte imprimé] : the life & work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser / Sergei Kan
Publication : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi, 233 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Lien à la collection : Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Sergei Kan explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser, a scholar
considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas's most brilliant and most favored
student" ; Explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880-1940),
a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas's most brilliant and most
favored student. Goldenweiser came to the United States from Russia as a young man.
A talented ethnographer, he developed excellent rapport with his Native American consultants--
but cut short his fieldwork due to lack of funds. An individualist and an anarchist
in politics, he deeply resented having to compromise any of his ideas and freedoms
for the sake of professional success. For the first time, Sergei Kan brings together
and examines all of Goldenweiser's published scholarly works, archival records, personal
correspondences, nonacademic publications, and living memories from several of Goldenweiser's
descendants. Goldenweiser attracted attention for his unique progressive views on
such issues as race, antisemitism, immigration, education, pacifism, gender, and individual
rights. His was a major voice in a chorus of progressive Boasians who applied the
insights of their discipline to a variety of questions on the American public's mind.
Many of the battles he fought are still with us today
Sujet(s) : Goldenweiser, Alexander (1880-1940)
Anthropologues -- Russie -- Biographie
Ethnologues -- Russie -- Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.800 92 (23e éd.) = Groupes ethniques et nationaux - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781496233486
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47230523f
Notice n° :
FRBNF47230523
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : List of Illustrations ; Series Editors' Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction
; 1. The Russian Beginning and the Early American Years ; 2. Early Scholarship, the
Iroquois Fieldwork, and Columbia ; 3. The New School, Academic and Popular Writing,
and a Devastating Divorce ; 4. The West Coast Exile ; 5. The End ; Notes ; References
; Index
